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Jensen Huang’s Reindeer Games, Agent Frameworks vs. Fully Custom, and Rapid Impact vs. Technical Debt
Rob and Justin explain why Fortune 500 companies spend months planning AI workflows that take a week to build, and why the agent framework explosion is freezing decision-makers.
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How to Acclimate Your Family to AI
AI adoption doesn’t start at work. It starts at home. Rob Collie and Justin Mannhardt explore how families are already acclimating to AI and what that reveals about real world adoption, iteration, and learning.
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Tales from the Five Percent: Tangible AI Success, w/ Tuio’s Juan Garcia
Juan Garcia shares how Tuio redesigned claims operations to move from stalled pilots to production systems, helping adjusters handle more cases without losing judgment, trust, or control.
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Rob’s New Book on AI (and Why He’s Writing It)
Everyone’s talking about AI, but very few leaders have a usable framework for making it work in the real world. In this episode, Rob explains why he’s writing a new book and why plain English thinking about AI matters more now than ever.
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Is AI “Vibe Coding” the Next VBA?
Rob and Justin explore whether AI helping you build software faster matters more than software with AI running inside it. The answer: you’re probably doing both. Learn about the magic Lego brick concept and why almost every workflow has room for one piece of AI that transforms everything around it.
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Democratized Data Science, Custom Software is the Future, and the Data Gene Rides Again
The real shift in AI isn’t better models or louder benchmarks. It’s that people with judgment and domain knowledge can now build custom software that actually fits the work.
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The Apparent Meaninglessness of AI Benchmarks, plus How to Explain AI Opportunities to Others
AI benchmarks make it sound like intelligence is the problem. It isn’t. The models are already good enough. What determines success is everything wrapped around them: structure, context, and intent. This episode explains why chasing model scores misses the point and what actually turns AI into something useful.
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The Power BI Fundamentals Behind Expert Development *and* AI Simplicity, w/ Microsoft’s Rui Romano
Everyone keeps asking whether AI kills Power BI or makes it stronger. Rui Romano flips that entire question on its head. As the Microsoft PM behind PBIP, TMDL, and all […]
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Why We Should Stop Paying Attention to the % of AI Projects which Fail (and Instead Learn Why the Others Succeed)
Most AI projects fail because they aim at the wrong target. This episode digs into the real pattern behind AI project success and why the smallest, most practical builds create the biggest lift.
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Cat Negotiations, Dishonest Chatbots, AI vs AI in the Job Market, and More Real World AI Use Cases
A cat truce, a lying chatbot, and an overload of AI written job applications. This episode breaks down why real world AI only works when it has one job and regular tech handles the rest.
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Customizing AI for Your Business is Crucial But It Isn’t Hard
Everyone’s talking about AI like it’s plug-and-play. Spoiler: it’s not.In this episode, Rob digs into why Big Tech’s billions in AI R&D haven’t yet turned into matching revenue — and […]
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Is AI a Bubble?
When the bubble pops, what’s left standing? Everyone’s calling AI a bubble — and yeah, there’s some wild stuff happening behind the scenes. Billions changing hands between the same few […]
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